Our Ref #: 4WTMD8

Weighted Blankets

heavy soft covering
£67.50
£56.25 exc. VAT

VAT relief available on this product.
Description

Filled with dense silicone beads, our blankets are thinner than its weight would suggest. Our beads are too small to feel as separate grains and therefore very quiet. The weight arrives as one smooth, even pressure rather than a bag of beans. The removable machine washable cover features a side with raised dots for texture.


8lbs = 4.3kg

12lbs = 5.4kg

18lbs = 8.2kg

20lbs = 9kg


The accepted advice is you pick the one roughly 10% of the user's body weight.

The user must always be able to move freely under the blanket and to remove it without help.

Never use a weighted blanket on anyone who cannot reposition or lift it off themselves, and never as a restraint.

Match the weight to the individual and introduce it gradually.

Details

It settles across you, finding the shape of you, pressing everywhere all at once.


This can be a moment of surrender, if you let the weight and your shape wash through your system it feels like white noise. White noise is what white pressure sounds like.

Or you can let it magnify your shape-conciousness letting you feel your fractal edges and your voluminous core.


In both cases white pressure is a powerful weapon against the fidget and anxiety, like white noise some people find it calming others find it exhausting, however Auditory is a vigilance sense, while Proprioception is a background sense, so we are confident that introduced gently the calming response is available to all.


Further information

Widely used to support sensory processing differences, including autism and ADHD.

A weighted blanket provides weighted input (a form of deep pressure) across a large area. Deep pressure is a recognised form of proprioceptive input used in sensory regulation.

For many users such deep pressure overwhelms the nervous system in a calming manner and is associated with reduced anxiety, easier transition to sleep, and improved sustained attention.

However the same overwhelming input can excite nervous systems unfamiliar with proprioceptive input which can be equally useful when the goal is engagement rather than rest.

The dense silicone-bead fill delivers even pressure with minimal tactile or auditory distraction,

Additional Information
  • Dimensions: 8 & 12lbs 150 x 100cm / 18 & 20lbs 130 x 180cm